Guest Speakers: Journalists on Journalism

The Graduate Seminar (Comm 291) provides a discussion forum for students and working journalists to present and exchange views on the most current and emerging trends, issues, and practices in the communications industry. Professional journalists and news experts are frequently invited as guests to share their expertise and practical insights relevant to the challenges impacting the rapidly changing media landscape. Student reporters produce podcasts and videos of these dynamic exchanges.

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Winter - 2013

Latoya Peterson
Racialicious.com editor and 2012-13 Knight Fellow
Randall Keith Video
Bay Area News Group digital managing editor
Nathan Thornburgh Video
Time Magazine contributing writer
Bernard Goldberg
Fox News commentator and author
Monika Bauerlein
Mother Jones editor in chief
Mariam Semaan
Head of RK Productions, Beirut, Lebanon, and 2012-13 Knight Fellow
T.G. Donlan Video
Barron's Weekly editorial page editor
Musikilu Mojeed
Premium Times managing editor, Abuja, Nigeria, and 2012-13 Knight Fellow

Fall - 2012

Mark Mazzetti Video
The New York Times
Greg Scharff, Molly Stump
Palo Alto Vice Mayor and City Attorney discuss the Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative
Nick Schmidle Video
The New Yorker
Bruce Koon, Katrina Schwartz Video
KQED News Director and Community Manager
California Death Penalty Repeal Ballot Initiative
Judge LaDoris Cordell, Lawrence C. Marshall, Stephen Wagstaffe
John Sawyer
Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Linton Weeks
National Correspondent NPR / Digital Media

Spring - 2012

Howard Mortman Video
C-SPAN director of new media strategies
Christine Larson Video
Accomplished freelance journalist and Stanford Communication PH.d student
Olivia Ma
YouTube news manager
Clay Lambert Video
Half Moon Bay Review editor
Tim O'Brien
Huffington Post executive editor
Katy Newton and Sean Connelley Video
Multimedia journalists
David Cohn
Spot.us founder
Georgia Wells
Student, Stanford Graduate Program in Journalism, on her reporting experiences in Egypt

Winter - 2012

David Segal Video
New York Times reporter and author of the "The Haggler" column
Christine Larson Video
Accomplished freelance journalist and Stanford Communication PH.d student
John Diaz Video
Editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
Masood Farivar Video
Afghan journalist
Arieh O'Sullivan Video
Former AP reporter and now editor of the The Media Line, an online site offering news from the Middle East
William McGurn Video
Columnist for the Wall Street Journal and speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch
Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor, journalist, author, columnist and citizen journalism advocate

Fall - 2011

Allison Silver Podcast
Opinion Editor - Politico
Bruce Koon and Molly Samuel
News Director and Community News Coordinator, KQED
Ryan Lizza Video
Washington Correspondent - The New Yorker
Andy Van de Voorde Video
Executive Associate Editor - Village Voice Media Holdings
T. Christian Miller Video
Knight Fellow, senior reporter, ProPublica
Yochi Dreazen Video
Senior Correspondent - National Journal
Queena Kim and Reyhan Harmanci
Community Editor and Culture Editor - The Bay Citizen
Justin Ferrell
Director of Digital, Mobile and New Product Design, The Washington Post
Michael Shear
The Caucus Blog - The New York Times
Tom Rosenstiel Video
Director - Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism

Spring - 2011

Patrick "Paddy" Hirsch Video
Knight Fellow, Senior Editor, Marketplace
Bec Hamilton Video
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Phuong Ly
Knight Fellow, Freelance (covering minorities/ethnic groups)
Dan Gillmor Video
Journalist, author ("We The Media" and "Mediactive")
David Leonhardt
The New York Times
John Harris Video
co-founder, The Politico and politico.com
John Markoff Video
technology reporter, The New York Times
John McChesney
NPR, Bill Lane Center for the American West

Winter - 2011

Saed Bannoura Video
International Middle East Media Center
Dan Archer Video
Comics journalist and Knight Fellow
Loretta Tofani Video
Pulitzer-Prize winning former Washington Post reporter
Jigar Mehta Video
Video journalist, The New York Times
Joan Biskupic
Supreme Court reporter, USA Today
Danny O'Brien
Internet advocacy coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists
Beth Duff-Brown Video
Deputy Asia editor, the Associated Press in Bangkok
Mike Pride Video
Columnist and recently retired editor, the Concord Monitor

Fall - 2010

Helene Cooper
White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Peter Maass Podcast
Contributor, The New York Times Magazine, author: Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Queena Kim Podcast
Community Editor; Steve Fainaru, Managing Editor, Bay Area Citizen
Kevin Skaggs Podcast
Executive Producer, Executive Producer, SFGate.com
Tom Brokaw
Generation Ageless: Longevity and the Boomers: Consequences for our World and Ourselves.
Tyche Hendricks Podcast
Project Editor, KQED; author, The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Ted Glasser Podcast
Professor of Communication: Journalistic Ethics in the Digital Age
Jon Krosnick Podcast
Professor of Communication: Midterm Election Review - Polls and Pundits
Wolf Blitzer
CNN's The Situation Room, Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture
Eric Schmitt
National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Fred Barnes Podcast
Washington Correspondent, The Weekly Standard

Spring - 2010

Mark Mazzetti
Mark Mazzetti, national security affairs correspondent for the New York Times, co-winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of America's expanding role in Pakistan and Afghanistan
David Cohn Podcast
David Cohn, founder of Spot.us, the Bay Area community-funded reporting website; and Lindsey Hoshaw, freelance journalist and Stanford journalism master's program alum
Marcia Parker Podcast
Marcia Parker, West Coast editorial director, and Michele Rabin, recruiter, for Patch.com, a hyper-local community news website based in New York and owned by AOL
Chris Gaither, Jason Friedenfelds & Karen Wickre
Chris Gaither, former LA Times business reporter, now a senior media spokesman; Jason Friedenfelds, manager, global communications and public affairs; and Karen Wickre, blogmeister and public affairs senior manager
Jonathan Weber
Jonathan Weber, editor of the new, non-profit Bay Area News Project
Othman Laraki
Othman Laraki, director of geo at Twitter
James Chadwick & Bert Robinson
James Chadwick, lawyer for Sheppard Mullin specializing in First Amendment and access to public information issues; and Bert Robinson, managing editor, San Jose Mercury News
Christine Larson Podcast
Christine Larson, independent freelance journalist and Knight Fellow

Winter - 2010

Sue Kwon
Consumer affairs reporter, KPIX television
Liz Harper Podcast
Writer on foreign affairs, United States Institute of Peace
Scott Johnson Podcast
Lawyer, writer and founder of the Powerline Website
Ward Bushee Video
Editor in chief, San Francisco Chronicle
Alfonso Cueller
Editor-in-chief, Semana magazine, Bogotá, Colombia
Tom Ricks
Author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Neil King
Foreign correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Paul Radu Podcast
Freelance reporter and projects coordinator, the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism
Steve Luxenberg Podcast
Reporter and editor, The Washington Post
Steve Coll
Writer, New Yorker Magazine

Fall - 2009

Matt Bai Podcast
National Political Reporter, The New York Times
Olivia Ma Podcast
YouTube, News & Politics
Mark Katches, Louis Freedberg Podcast
Center for Investigative Reporting, California Project
Joel Hyatt Podcast
Vice Chairman, Current TV
Paul Steiger Video
Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica
Maria Bartiroma Podcast
NBC, The Wall Street Journal Report
Joanna Pearlstein Podcast
Senior Editor, Wired
Maureen Fan Podcast
Beijing Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Richard Gingras Podcast
CEO, Salon Media Group
Andrea Kissack Podcast
Senior Editor, Quest/ KQED